AUTOMATIC CAPTIONS AND TRANSCRIPTS FOR YOUR MICROSOFT STREAM VIDEOS

Below are steps on how to set up automatic captions and transcripts for your Videos in Microsoft Stream.

Enable autogenerated captions for your video

  1. Upload a video for which you want to enable autogenerated captions. If the video is already uploaded, go to the Edit video page.
  2. In the Details section, select a supported language.

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  3. On the Options tab, set Autogenerate captions to On.

    This setting won’t be available if you have selected a non-supported language.

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  4. Stream will automatically begin generating captions.

Upload a custom caption file

To upload a caption file, follow the steps in Add subtitles and captions.

If you wish to learn more about captioning and video transcripts please visit the official Microsoft documentation here.